Looking for Alaska is about the main character Miles Halter leaving his safe little world, for boarding school to find what the famous poet Francois Rabelais’s “Great Perhaps” was. Along with encountering many new things, one of them being Alaska Young. Miles Halter a fifteen year old boy with a talent of learning famous people 's last words. After celebrating his 15th birthday, he makes the decision to attend boarding school at Culver Creek, to discover the meaning behind the “Great Perhaps”. Upon arriving at his new home, Miles quickly earns the name “Pudge”, for being tall and skinny. Miles is introduced to Alaska Young, an individual with unique personality, and interests. In today’s society Miles would be thought as a “nerd” or “geek” with his scrawny figure, love for books and school. He would not be one of the popular, sporty kids in school, with the many friends.
Every important event that happens in this novel, happens on Culver Creek campus. Miles meets his roommate Colonial, meets Alaska, makes his first friends, smokes his first cigarette, and gets affectionate with a girl all for the first time on campus. In the story Culver Creek plays this role of being a place where kids don’t have adult supervision on them; they are on their own for getting to class on time, making their own meals, and getting their work done.
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The whole reason Miles Halter decides to move to the boarding school is to uncover the meaning of Francois Rabelais’s Great Perhaps and hopefully along the way have a more energetic life. In which Miles discovers the Great Perhaps isn 't just one event, but all of the events that go on in his life, and as long as he is living he is experiencing the Great Perhaps. The Great Perhaps is one person’s life story and the events that happen within it. Everyone in society has a Great Perhaps, it is your life story and everything you experience, from the good to the very